Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: It is important for people to realise that electoral reform is not a one-off thing but it is a continuous thing. I believe that after the next general elections, we will pinpoint more problems that the 12th Parliament will be called upon to clear and improve the electoral process. This is a process and this is the best we have at the moment. We request those who are charged with the responsibility of implementing the laws to not only implement them to the letter but also the spirit of those laws. Sometimes the problem is that people interpret the laws ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: As we sat down, as a Committee, we realised that there are very many countries which are willing and ready to assist Kenya to make the electoral processes much better. Countries with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: wide experience like India, which has over 800 million voters, is able to deliver an election in a record time, and would be willing to assist. Many other countries would be willing to assist us in this endeavour for electoral reforms and ensure that our elections are better handled than before. If you look at this Bill, you will realise that we have also put in something for future elections. I would call on the Committee in charge of security to look at this Bill properly. We are talking about voter registration to the extent that people must walk to ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise on a point of order. “ Maitu” in my mother tongue means, “one groundnut”. So, I was a bit confused. That was my point of order. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to second the adoption of this Report. At the inception of this Committee, we went through a very long period of public participation, taking views from members of the public and specific organisations that have interest in elections. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) was able to support the Committee’s work thoroughly in the sense that we were backed up with very experienced experts in various areas view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: some of them provided by the PSC and others hired by either the Jubilee or CORD. We had a very intense negotiation period. So, the Report we have tabled in the House is as a result of this negotiation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as you well know, when you go to a negotiation you do not go with a fixed position. So, there has been a lot of give and take on both sides so as to come up with this compromised document ensuring that we do not lose the mandate of the Committee as it had been spelt out in ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon Deputy Speaker, it is very difficult to speak and--- view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, it was very difficult to go ahead and propose those amendments to the Constitution because some of them would have taken a very long time and we would not have made the deadline for the 2017 elections. It might appear that we disappointed some people especially the Judiciary who wanted the period of the presidential election petition prolonged to 30 days but our hands were tied because of the timelines involved in amending the Constitution given the period left to the life of this Parliament before we break for the next general elections. We need to be ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We also came up with a mechanism of appointing new Commissioners and reduced their number to seven. Many have questioned why we did not go by the majority stakeholders who had recommended that the Commissioners be part-time. What informed us to give them the full- time basis was because after the next elections, the next thing the Commission will have to do is boundary review which in the Constitution should start eight to 10 years from the last review. It will be one of the jobs which the incoming Commissioners will perform. So, making them part-time would have defeated the ... view